Debriefing for Nigeria hostage

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Ship captain Robin Hughes, 59, originally from St Margaret's Bay, near Dover, Kent, was among 27 oil workers kidnapped when their oil supply vessel was hijacked on September 9.

The majority of the crew were later released but Mr Hughes and fellow Briton Matthew Maguire remained hostages of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend).

Mr Hughes, whose wife, Adina, and 16-year-old daughter, Elenice, live in Brazil, was handed over to military officials in Nigeria's southern oil region on Sunday on health grounds.

His younger brother, Simon Hughes, 48, from Blackstone, West Sussex, said he had been suffering from a foot infection and was on antibiotics.

He said: "He is undergoing a debriefing interview today with the Nigerian authorities. He sounded very much like the brother I know when I spoke to him on the phone, which was a great relief because we were concerned how this would affect him.

"He was in good spirits. I asked him whether he felt OK and he said 'Not really' because of the infection he is suffering from in his foot."

Mr Hughes was also able to relay some positive news to the family of Mr Maguire, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, who remains the sole British captive of the militants.

"My brother said Matthew was fit and well and doing OK," said Mr Hughes. The good news is that we have been able to give that information to Matthew's family, which is important because information is so hard to come by over there.

"He is still being held captive. We haven't heard anything to say he will be released but we are hoping he will be."